Device for taking off strands wound up on a reeling machine and subsequently dampening in a dampening machine

ABSTRACT

A DEVICE FOR TAKING OFF STRANDS WOULD UP ON A REELING MACHINE INTO A STEAMING MACHINE AND THEN REMOVING THE STRANDS AFTER THE STEAM TREATMENT WHICH CONTAINS A DEVICE THAT STRIPS THE STRANDS OFF A REELING BASKET.

June l, 1,971

DEVICE FOR TAKING OFF STRANDS WOUND UP ON A REELING' MACHINE AND SUBSEQUENTLY DAMPENING IN A DAMPENING MACHINE Filed nec.. 5, lees 1o sneetspsheet 1 FIG. l

E. LucKE 3,581,406

June l, 1971 E. L ucKi-z 3,581,406

DEVICE FOR TAKING OFF STRANDS WOUND UP ON A REELING MACHINE AND SUBSEQUENTLY DAMPENING IN A DAMPENING MACHINE Filed Dec. 5, 3.969 10 Sheets-Sheet l m Q LL =I 's N //l\ g o, g Q a? N D Q Si' s ,i R1 :n

E. LUCKE June l, 1971 DEVICE FOR TAKING OFF STRANDS WOUND UP ON A REELING MACHINE AND SUBSEQUENTLY DAMPENING IN A DAMPENING MACHINE l0 Sheets-Sheet 5 Filed Dec. 5, .1969

June 1, 1971 E. LUCKE 3,581,406 DEVICE FOR TAKING OFF STRANDS WOUND UP ON A REELING MACHINE AND SUBSEQUENTLY DAMPENING IN A DAMPENING MACHINE Filed De'c. 5, 1969 l0 Sheets-Sheet 4 FIG. 6

June l, 1971 E. I UcKE 3,581,406 Y DEVICE FOR TAKING OFF STRANDS WOUND UP ON A REELING MACHINE AND SUBSEQUENTLY DAMPENING IN A DAMPENING MACHINE Filed Dec. s, .1.969 10 Sheets-Sheet 5 l lll /l/l E. L ucKE 3,581,406 DEVICE FOR TAKING OFF STRANDS WOUND UP ON A REELING MACHINE June l, 1971 AND SUBSEQUENTLY DAMPENING IN A DAMPENING MACHINE Filed Dec. 5, 1969 10 Sheets-Sheet 6 FIG. 7

June l, 1971 E. LUCKE 3,581,406

DEVICE Foa TAKING oFF sTRANDs woUND UP 0N A REELING MACHINE AND sUBsEQUENTLY DAMPENING IN A DAMPENING MACHINE Filed Dec. 5, l969 10 Sheets-Sheet 7 nJune l, 1971 E, LUCKE 3,581,406

' DEVICE FOR TAKING OFF STRANDS WOUND UP ON A REELING MACHINE AND SUBSEQUENTLY DAMPENING IN A DAMPENING MACHINE Filed Dec.` 5, 1969 l0 Sheets-Sheet 8 FIG. 6

June l, 1971 E, LUCKE 3,581,406

DEVICE FOR TAKING OFF STRANDS WOUND UP 0N A REELING MACHINE AND SUBSEQUENTLY DAMPENING IN A DAMPENING MACHINE Filed Deo. 5, 1969 10 Sheets-Sheet 9 FIG. 70

June l., 1971 E. LUCKE 3,531,406

DEVICE FOR TAKING OFF STRANDS WOUND UP ON A REELING' MACHINE AND SUBSEQUENTLY DAMPENING IN A DAMPENING MACHINE Filed Dec. 5. 3.969 l0 Sheets-Sheet 10 FIG. 12 i i United States Patent() 3,581,406 DEVICE FOR TAKING OFF STRANDS WOUND UP ON A REELING MACHINE AND SUBSEQUENTLY DAMPENING 1N A DAMPENING MACHINE Ernst Lucke, Stuttgart-Degerloch, Germany, assignor to 'Croon & Lucke, Mengen, Wurttemberg, Germany Filed Dec. 5, 1969, Ser. No. 882,516 Claims priority, application Germany, Aug. 25, 1969, P 19 43 106.2 Int. Cl. F26b 13/00 U.S. Cl. 34--153 10 Claims ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE A device for taking off strands wound up on a reeling machine into a steaming machine and then removing the strands after the steam treatment which contains a device that strips the strands off a reeling basket.

This invention relates to a device for taking off strands wound up on a reeling machine, subsequently steaming or dampening of these strands in a steaming or dampening machine and then ejecting the strands after the steaming or dampening treatment.

One object of this invention is to move the strands quickly and without damage into a steaming machine. A further object of this invention is to create a strand transportation equipment unit which is adjusted to the design and functional factors of the reeling machine and the steaming machine.

The problem is solved by having a device containing a cart on which a onesidedly attached pipe is arranged at such a height that its free end can be pushed, approximately below the highest point of the circumference of a reeling basket toward its free end, and the inside diameter of the pipe is somewhat larger than the outside diameter of a steaming or dampening pipe whose axis, which runs parallel to the oor, is arranged at the same height in the steaming machine as the pipe, and likewise running parallel to the iloor.

In the reeling machine involved in this invention we are dealing with machines of the kind in which the reeling basket is positioned onesidedly and in which the strands are brushed or stripped over its free end to a strand transport cart. In the case where the reeling basket is positioned bilaterally because it is too heavy for unilaterally because it is too heavy for unilateral positioning, then there is provided a supporting lever, prior to the swinging away of the bearing place, for the purpose of stripping off the strands. Such a supporting lever is known, for example, in German and Italian Pat. Nos. 918,555 and 540,118, respectively. The free end of the supporting lever comes to rest against the shaft of the reeling basket and in this basket, the ring, which strips olf the strands, must be open in the area of the supporting lever.

The reeling machine involved in this invention, in accordance with a further feature of this invention, for the purpose of stripping olf the strands onto the same transport cart in the direction of the axis of the reeling basket, is provided with a ring which can be automatically moved over the entire length of the basket, and which lies in a plane on which the reeling basket axis stands perpendicularly. The diameter of the ring is greater than the diameter of the reeling basket with the wound-up strands and has the same number of freely-ending spokes as reeling basket spars. Said spokes are attached to the ring pointing radially toward the reeling basket axis and in front of the reeling basket shaft but within the strand winding bodies. The ring is outside the reeling basket ice spars in the area of the reeling basket bearing when it is not in the action position.

Other features of this invention will become apparent from the accompanying drawings in which:

FIG. l is a schematic view of a reeling machine from the operating side;

FIG. 2 is a side view of the strand transport cart;

FIG. 3 is a view of a reeling machine with strand transport carts coupled on the side;

FIG. 4 is a view of a reeling machine with laterally coupled strand transport cart onto which the strands are pushed;

FIG. 5 shows the ring that strips the strands off the reeling basket and its sled on the. rail shown in crosssection;

FIG. 6 is a side view of the ring stripping olf the strands, with sled and rail;

FIG. 7 shows the steaming or dampening machine, in longitudinal cross-section;

FIG. 8 is a view of the strand transport cart with the strands suspended from it, prior to the time the cart is run into the steaming machine;

FIG. 9 is a view of the steaming machine with closed door, prior to the entry of the strand transport cart;

FIG. 10 is a front View of steaming machine with closed doors;

FIG. 1l is a view of the steaming machine after strand transport cart has been run in.

FIG. 12 shows the steaming machine with strands hanging inside after the strand transport cart has been run out again;

FIG. 13 is a view of the steaming machine after ejection of strands into a container.

With reference to the drawings, it will be seen that the reeling machine, shown schematically in FIGS. 1, 3 and 4, has a unilaterally positioned reeling basket 5, whose shaft 6 runs in bearing 7. The six spars 8 are articulated or hinged on spokes 9 which are hinged on shafts 6. With the middle of each spoke 9 there is connected a guide 10 in a swingable fashion and the other end of guide 10 is connected with a ring which ilexibly surrounds the reeling basket shaft 6. For each set of guides 10 there is provided one ring. In FIG. 4, three sets of spokes 9 and guides 10 are provided. The rings are jointly axially movable. As the result of this shift, there is a change in the angle of the guides and spokes with. respect to the reeling basket axis and, depending upon movement in one or the other direction, the circumference of the reeling basket is either enlarged or reduced. This reeling basket circumference change is known, for example, in British Pat. No.

In housing 11 of the reeling machine we lind located, in a known manner, a drive motor. gears for the activation of the reeling basket, gears for the control of the thread guides, and the necessary electrical switches.

FIG. 2 shows a side View of the strand transport cart 2 which belongs to the installation. Attached to the cart 2 is a pipe 12 which runs off and parallel to the floor. The pipe 12 is unilaterally in rm connection with vertical rods 13 and 14 which are fastened in the supporting frame 15. With its free end 12a, pipe 12 protrudes to a certain extent over the front edge 15a of supporting frame 15. Strand transport cart 2 runs on at least three wheels 16, 17, and 18, where the axle bearings of the front wheels 16 and 17 are rigidly attached to supporting frame 15 while the axle bearing of at least lone rear wheel 18 is rotatably attached to the supporting frame 15. The strand transport cart 2 is moved toward the left side of the reeling machine 1, with its front edge 15a (FIG. 3) in such a Way that pipe 12 will run in the axial direction of reeling basket 5. The specilic height of the pipe 12 is so dimensioned that its end 12a will come to rest exactly at or at least a little bit below the left end 5a of a spar 5 which is just in the highest position, while the other edge of 'pipe 12 does not lie lower than the under edge of spar After cart 2 has been placed in this position, it is Coupled with the reeling machine. This is done by means of lever 19 on the left end of cart 2, that is where the cart operator guides and pushes the cart. This lever 19 is swingably attached to the supporting frame 15, in the longitudinal direction of pipe 12, and is in joint-connection with a rod 20 which, with its other end, is articulated on a two-arm lever 21 which is swingable in the same plane as lever 19. This lever 21 has a short arm 21a which is roughly at a right angle to a long arm 2lb, whereby rod 20 is articulated on the short arm. Lever 21 is positioned just before the front end 15a on supporting frame 15. The long lever arm 2lb protrudes beyond the supporting frame end 15a. Shortly before the supporting frame end 15a there is screwed onto the long lever arm 21 a pin 22 which protrudes laterally from the arms swing-plane and this pin, by swinging hand lever 19 in the direction of arrow 23, swings the dot-dash lever arm 21b (FIG. 2) downward (FIG. 3) from the dot-dash position in FIG. 2 into the position shown in FIG. 3, so that it will come to rest with its pin 22 in an upper recess 24 in an arm 25 which is attached to the frame wall of reeling machine 1 at a corresponding height and so that the reeling machine 1 is coupled with the strand transport cart 2.

In order to prevent the joggling of strand transport cart 2, which stands on wheels, with respect to reeling machine 1, it is possible to arrange two levers 21, at an interval from each other, on the cart supporting frame or undercarriage 15, to whom correspond two arms 25 on reeling machine 1. In order to be able to activate both levers 21 with a one hand lever 19, they are firmly screwed on a shaft 26 which is located on supporting frame 15.

After the strand transport cart 2 has been coupled with the reeling machine 1, which is done when the strands 27 have their prescribed weight, while the reeling machine 1 has been shut down, and when the reeling basket has been moved into the above mentioned prescribed position which is indicated by the lighting up of a lamp 28, there follows the stripping-off of strands 27 from reeling basket 5 to pipe 12 of the strand transport cart 2. This is done in the following manner, a ring 29, which stands at a right angle to the reeling basket axis and which is in the shut down position to the right, outside the spars 5, roughly in the range of bearing 7 of reeling basket shaft 6, pushes strands 27 to the left (FIG. 3), that is, in the direction toward the free end of the reeling basket 5, until all strands hang on pipe 12 of the strand transport cart 2.

FIGS. 5 and 6 show details of ring 29l which operates as a strand stripper.

The left side wall (FIGS. l, 3, and 4) of the reeling machine 1 is so designed that strands 27 can without interference be pushed from the free end of reeling lbasket 5 to pipe 12 of the strand transport cart 2.

The moment the coupling of the strand transport cart 2 with the reeling machine 1 is accomplished, that is, when pin 22 on long lever arm 2lb of the strand transport cart 2 comes to rest in recess 24 of the arm(s) 25 on the reeling machine 1, a terminal switch 30` is activated (FIG. 6) which in a known manner reduces the circumference of the reeling basket 5 until the strands hang on the basket without any tension and can be easily moved on the reeling basket. After this has been done, the reversible motor 31, which moves the ring 29, is turned on. Motor 31 drives a chain wheel 34 via a chain wheel 32 and a chain 33. Chain wheel 34 is irmly connected with the second chain wheel 35 which runs around an axle 36. On chain wheel 35 there is a horizontally expanding, endless chain 37 which lies on a second chain wheel 38 which revolves around axis 39 and which keeps the chain tensed to a permissible degree. The left chain wheel axle 39 is attached to the vertical column 40' of the rear frame wall of the reeling machine which is connected with housing 11 by the upper and lower lateral cross-piece 41, respectively, 42. The right chain wheel axle 36 is attached to the left wall of housing 11. Both wheel axles 36 and 39 are so attached that their chain wheels 35 and 38 and the chain 3-7 running on them will run longitudinally along the middle line of the upper lateral cross-piece 41. The left-hand vertical column 40 is at such an interval from the free end 5a of reeling basket 5 that the ring 29, which strips the strands 27 olf the reeling basket 5, still stands on the right, in front of the vertical column 40, when it is in its left-hand terminal position (FIG. 4). Below the horizontal lateral cross-piece 41, there is a rectangular rod 43 which runs parallel to that cross-piece and which is attached to the vertical column 40 and to the left wall of the housing 11, on which a sled 44 can be moved back and forth, sled 44 consists of two side walls 45 and 46l and one lower wall 47 which are welded together or which are connected with each other in some other fashion. Between the side walls 45 and y46 there is positioned, below and above rod `43, rollers 48 and -49, and 50I and 51, respectively, which guides the sled on rod 43 without any leeway. Sled 44 is secured against lateral shift by rollers 52, 53 and 54, 55 which are positioned in bearing walls 56, 57, and 58, 59, respectively, and which are firmly connected with the side walls 45 and 46. Ring 29 is screwed to the bearing walls 58 and 59 by means of flanges 60 and 61.

Ring 29 has six spokes 62 which are pointed radially inward. FIG. 5 shows that these spokes 52 end inside a circle 63 on which lie the inside edges 5b of the spars 5, while the spars 5" are attached to the reduced circumference of the reeling basket, which facilitates the easy shifting of strands 27.

In FIG. 5, theupper spar, designated as 5 and, in accordance with FIG. 4, assumes the position between neighboring spokes 62a and 62b, when the end of pipe 12 of the strand transport cart 2 is run all the way up to spar 5. The position of pipe 12 'with respect to ring 29 and reeling basket 5 is shown in cross-section in FIG. 5.

FIG. 5 shows the upper part of a strand 27 lying on reeling basket 5 where it can be seen that it is the spokes 62 of ring 29 which push the strands 27 over the free end of reeling basket 5 onto pipe 12 of the strand transport cart 2, if ring 29 is moved out of its shut down position, in accordancel with FIG. l, all the way to its final position according to FIG. 4.

Sled 44 has a pin 64 screwed into its lower wall 47; this pin engages the upper leader or Stringer 37a of chain 37 so that the chain takes the sled along if its drive motor 31 is turned on.

From the position of the sled 44 and ring 29, as shown in FIGS. 6 and 1, motor 31 moves the upper stringer of chain 37a in the direction of arrow 65, that is, in the direction toward the free end of the reeling basket 5.

At the end of the movement which moves ring 29 into the position according to FIG. 4, a roller 67 is steered upward by means of a curve 66 on the left-hand sled side wall 46 (FIG. 5). This roller turns on in itself a known relay 68 which turns motor 31 to reverse and as the result of which the upper chain Stringer 37a and, with it, sled 44 and ring 29 are moved in the direction of arrow 69 (FIG. 6), until a curve 70, attached to the upper part of the right-hand side Wall 45 of sled 44, swings the roller 71 on relay 72 upward and turns on a relay which shuts down the drive motor 31.

Rollers 67 and 71 are positioned on two-arm levers 73` and 74, which are swingably positioned on relay box 68 and 72 respectively. The free end of the one lever arm activates spring-stressed slide bars 75 and 76, respectively, which provides for the switching or connection.

When strands 27 are pushed on pipe 12 of strand transport cart 2, the cart is uncoupled from the reeling machine 1. Reeling basket 5 of the reeling machine is once again restored to the circumference which is prescribed for winding with yarns for the purpose of making new strands 27.

Strand transport cart 2 is driven to the dampening or steaming machine 3 whose parts are illustrated in FIG. 7, to the extent that they have a bearing on this invention.

The steaming machine 3 consists of a housing 77 which encloses the space to be steamed all around. The upper steaming pipe 79, which is unilaterally positioned at 78, is provided with holes 80 all around and along its entire length and these holes force the steam against the inside of the strands suspended thereon. The axis of steaming pipe 79 runs parallel to and at the same interval as pipe 12 of strand transport cart 2, with respect to the floor. Pipe 12 is longer than steaming pipe 79. Specifically, pipe 12 is so much longer that it can be pushed onto steaming pipe 79 up to the latters bearing support position 78 and that the vertical strands 13 and 14 of the strand transport cart 2 will be outside housing 77 (see also FIG. 12). 'Ihe inside diameter of pipe 12 is somewhat greater than the outside diameter of steaming pipe 79 which is rounded olf or sharpened or pointed at free end 79a for easier insertion in pipe 12.

The lower steam pipe 81 is provided with holes 82 over its entire length but only on its upper half. These holes 82 force the steam upwardly against the outside of the strands hanging on the upper pipe 79, as seen in FIG. l2.

In front of the free end of steaming pipes 79 and 81 there is provided a door 83 which can be pulled upward for the purpose of opening housing 77 by means of a chain 84 which is attached to a winch 85. On both side edges, door 83 has, on the top and on the bottom, rollers 86 and 87 (FIG. 7). The lower rollers 87 run in two guide grooves 88 which are inclined toward housing 77 at the lower end but which otherwise run along a straight line and in a vertical direction. The upper two rollers 86 run in two guide grooves 89 which are designed just like guide grooves 88. These guide groups are intended, shortly prior to the closing of door 83 to press this door firmly against the opening to be closed in housing 77 and to pull the door upward without friction.

FIG. 11 shows a steaming machine 3 from the front. The machine housing 77 has two doors 83 so that two strand sets can simultaneously be suspended and steamed on two steaming pipes 79. Above the upper steaming pipe 79 there is arranged, parallel thereto and below the housing cover, an endless chain 90 which lies on two chain wheels 91 and 92, one of which can be driven by a reversible motor (not shown).

Behind the chain 90` there is attached to cover plate 77a of housing 77, an arm 93 which is pointed downward and to whose lower end there is attached a horizontal pin 94 on whose end a lever 95 can be swung in a perpendicular plane around the moving joint 96 which is intersected by the axis of the upper steaming pipe 79. Lever 95 is so long that, when it is swung downward into the vertical position 95a, it has a small interval, with its free end, from the surface of steaming pipe 79. When lever 95 is in the horizontal position, as shown in FIG. 7, there is articulated a rod 98 at point 97, below lever pivoting point 9,6; this rod runs parallel to the axis of the steaming pipe 79, it runs through the rear wall 77h of housing 77 and it is articulated on the upper arm 99a of a two-arm lever 99 which can be swung` around a fixed axis 100 which is arranged outside housing 77. In order to prevent the es cape of steam through the opening 101, provided for rod 98 in rear Wall 7711, a sleeve 102 consistingof siliconrubber, is attached to the outside of rear wall 77b. The lower arm 99h of the two-arm lever 99 has on its free end a slit 103 which runs in the direction of extent or stretch of this arm. Into slit 103 there protrudes a pin 104 which is attached to the free end of the upper arm 105a of a second two-arm lever 105. This lever can be swung around a xed axis 106. On the lower arm 105b of lever 105 there is articulated a horizontal rod 107 which runs parallel to the axis of steaming pipe 79. Rod 107 is below the housing floor 77e and positioned in a rail with much leeway. A traction spring 109 keeps levers 105 and 99 in the resting position in which the lever 95 is in the horizontal position. If rod 107 is pushed in the direction of arrow 110, then lower lever arm 105 is swung into position 10511 and the upper lever arm 99a of lever 99 is swung into position 99a and draws lever 95 by means of rod 98 into the vertical position 95a. This position of lever 95 is necessary when pipe 12 of the strand transport cart 2 is drawn out of the steaming machine 3 and when the strands 27 must be pushed of pipe 12 in order to remain hanging on steaming pipe 79.

When lever arm 99a is swung .against the traction of spring 109 into position 99a', the downward-bent end of a two-arm lever 112, which is swingable in a perpendicular plane on a fixed axle 111, snaps behind the right upper edge of the upper level arm 99a due to the traction of a spring 112, and thus keeping lever 95 in its vertical position 95a.

The right-hand arm 112a of the two-arm arresting lever 112 protrudes into the housing 77. The thus necessary slit 113 is covered by a sleeve 114 which is attached to the outside surface of ringer wall 77.b in order to prevent the escape of steam. On the lower Stringer a of the endless chain 90 there is attached holder 115 with which a strand ejector 116 is firmly connected. Ejector 116 consists of two rods 116a and 116k which protrude vertically downward up to a point under the steaming pipe 79. The free ends of rods 116a and 116b are connected with each other by means of a cross-rod 116C.

FIG. 7 shows the strand ejector 116 in the resting position which it assumes when the strands are suspended from steaming pipe 79.

If the strand ejector 116 is moved from the lower Stringer 90a when the motor that drives the chain is turned on, then in the beginning of the movement, a cam 117 on holder 115 will bump into a cam 118 on the end of lever arm 112:1 and it will swing the latter so far downward that the upward swinging lever arm 112b will cancel out the arresting of the upper lever arm 99a' which is in the position shown by the dot-dash line. Due to the traction of spring 109, lever arm 99a is then swung to the right and lever is swung into the horizontal position from its position 95a, shown in the dot-dash line so that the strands 27 can easily be pushed of'rr steaming pipe 79. The steaming of the strands hanging on steaming pipe 79 from the inside and ou steaming pipe 81, arranged under the strands, from the outside, takes place while door 83 is closed. The steam flows through the feeder pipe 119 which is connected with the steam generator (not shown) via pipes 120 and 121 into steaming pipes 79 and 81 respectively.

Two terminal switches 122 andl 123 are firmly connected with a housing wall under both ends of the lower chain stringer 90a.

When chain stringer 90a moves in the direction of arrow 124, the left edge of holder 11.5 bumps into terminal switch 122, which turns off the motor that drives the chain. If the direction of rotation of this motor is switched around and if the lower chain stringer 90a moves in the direction of arrow 125, then the right edge of holder 115, at the end of the distance travelled by strand ejector 116, runs into terminal switch 123 and shuts the motor olf.

FIG. 8 shows the strand transport cart 2 with the strands 27 hanging on its pipe 12.

FIG. 9 shows the steaming machine, which is ready to take in new strands 27 with the strand ejector 116 in the resting position and lever 95 swung into the horizontal position. Door 83 is still closed. Before the strand transport cart 2 loaded with strands 27, according to FIG. 8, is pushed into the steaming machine 3, door 83 is pulled up. Pipe 12 of pipe is pushed onto steaming pipe 79 until it runs into the frontside of pipe bearing 78. At the same time, the supporting frame or undercarriage 15 of cart 2 is shoved under the oor 77c of housing 77 and, at the end of the movement, moves the rod 107 in the direction of arrow 110. As a result lever 95 is swung into the vertical position via levers 105, 99 and rod 98` is likewise swung into the vertical position, while the arresting lever 112 holds the upper lever arm of lever 99 firmly against the traction of spring 109, as shown in FIG. l1.

Rod 20, which activates the coupling with the reeling machine 1 on strand transport cart 2, is in the meantime below a tunnel (not shown in FIG. 7) provided in housing floor 77a.

Rods 13 and 14 of strand transport cart 2 are outside the machine when cart 2 is completely pushed into the steaming machine 3. Then the strand transport cart 2 is pulled out of the steaming machine 3. The vertically adjusted lever 9S holds the strands 72 back while pipe 12 is being pulled out so that the strands will hang on steaming pipe 79.

In accordance with FIG. 12, door '83 is closed and steam is blown into pipes 79 and 81.

When the steaming process is finished, door 83 is opened and chain 90 is moved in the direction of arrow 125 by a drive motor, with the lower Stringer 90a of the chain, whereby, as described above, lever 95 is moved into the horizontal position.

As a result of the movement of chain Stringer 90a, all strands 27 are thrown into a container 4 with the help of strand ejector 116, until ejector 116 is in the final position as shown in FIG. 13.

After the ejection of strands 27 from the steaming machine 3, the strand ejector 116 moves until it returns to its resting position. Lever 95 here remains in its horizontal position and the steaming machine is ready to accept new strands.

All manually adjusted motors of the steaming machine 3 and of the reeling machine 1 can be controlled by relays or electronically, with known means, during the coupling, respectively, uncoupling of the strand transport cart 2, respectively, from reeling machine 1 and while cart 2 is being driven into the steaming machine 3 or while container 4 is being driven up or driven away. Any of the operations which are shown to be performed by hand, according to the above description, can be carried out automatically with electrical and electronic means.

What is claimed is:

1. In combination with a steaming machine and a reeling machine, a device for taking off strands wound up on a reeling basket mounted on a shaft of said reeling machine and subsequently steaming said strands in said steaming machine containing at least one steaming pipe, said device comprising at least one cart means having a unilaterally attached pipe with an inside diameter of said pipe being larger than the outside diameter of said steaming pipe and mounted at such a height that the full end can be pushed over said steaming pipe, and said pipe on said cart being somewhat below the highest point of the circumference of said reeling basket so that it can be pushed through said basket to the face end of the backet, said steaming pipe having its axis running parallel to the floor, and means for stripping wound up strands from said reeling basket onto said cart means.

2. The device according to claim 1 running on bearings and, spars on said reeling basket attached to said shaft, wherein said means for stripping comprises a ring on said reeling machine which can be automatically moved in the direction of the axis of said reeling basket over the entire length of said reeling basket in a plane on which the reeling basket axis stands perpendicularly; the diameter of said ring being greater than that of said reeling basket with wound up strands, freely-ending spokes attached to said ring, said spokes being directed radially toward the reeling basket axis in front of the reeling basket shaft, but within the wound up strands.

3. The device according to claim 2 including a sled connecting said ring mounted on a stationary, horizontal rod, and a reversible motor with an endless chain for shifting said sled to a point beyond the free end of the reeling basket and back again into the resting position.

4. The device according to claim 2, wherein there is attached to the surface and on the side of said sled facing away from said ring, a first and second curve, said rst curve being capable of stripping the strands from said reeling basket in the direction of movement of said ring, said irst curve being slanted downward toward the front, said second curve being slanted downward toward the front in the opposite direction of said first curve, whereby the first curve lifts a roller lwhich is positioned on a lever at the end of the iirst named direction, and controls a relay which redirects the motor, which is turned on at the beginning of this movement, into the other direction of rotation, while said second curve, at the end of the movement of said ring in the second mentioned direction, lifts a second roller which is positioned on lever and controls a reeling which shuts the motor down.

5. The device according to claim 2, including a supporting lever which bears the reeling basket during standstill.

6. The device according to claim 1, wherein said carts are coupled with said reeling machine by means of a locking device, whereby one can activate a terminal switch which will reduce the circumference of the reeling bfsket in such a way that the strands can be easily slipped o f -l 7. The device according to claim 1, including a rod horizontally positioned in the lower part of the steaming machine and capable of being moved by said cart shortly before said cart reaches its terminal position, a pair of two-arm levers positioned in a stationary fashion and connected with each other by means of a joint-connection, a rod positioned above the steaming pipe, a swing lever, located above the free end of the steaming pipe, and spring means for keeping said rod positioned above said steaming pipe tensed, so that the cart moves said rod in the lower part of the steaming machine and said rod by action on said two-armed levers activates said rod above the steaming pipe which swings said swing lever from a horizontal position into a vertical position to a point near the steaming pipe.

y8. The device according to claim 1, including means for the ejection of the strands, after the termination of the steam treatment.

9. The device according to claim 1, including strand ejector Imeans comprising two parallel rods extending to a point below the steaming pipe, connected with chain means and can be moved to the free end of the steaming pipe.

10. The device of claim 9 wherein said strand ejector means is activated by motor means and guided without slippage by means of two chain wheels.

References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 913,285 2/1909 Harbeok 34-105X 2,737,041 3/1956 Blomey 34-104X CARROLL B. DORITY, JR., Primary Examiner U.S. Cl. X.R. 34-105, 163 

